The Free Syrian Army is taking control of territory just outside Damascus, while the US and allies protest Russian arms sales to Assad’s regime. IWPR interviewed one activist in rebel territory who called for NATO intervention.
Two men in Azerbaijan were arrested in an alleged Iranian-backed plot to kill two Jewish educators and the Israeli ambassador—as Obama in his State of the Union address made an oblique threat to use nuclear weapons against Iran.
Anti-government protesters stormed the NTC offices in Benghazi, demanding that former Qaddafi-loysalists step down from the ruling body. Meanwhile, Qaddafi-loysalist fighters reportedly took the desert town of Bani Walid.
Thanks to a plea deal, Staff Sgt. Frank G. Wuterich will serve not time in the final court-martial resulting from a five-year investigation into the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in 2005.
The Cuban government says Wilmar Villar Mendoza wasn’t a political prisoner and hadn’t been on a hunger strike before his death; the US calls him a “courageous defender of human rights.”
After years of impunity, former Guatemalan military dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-83) is to appear before a judge this month in what could become a trial for genocide.
Three unidentified men gunned down attorney José Ricardo Rosales in the coastal city of Tela just four days after a newspaper reported on Rosales’ claim that local police agents had abused detainees.
Distrust continues between popular Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and many of the grassroots and leftist organizations that helped bring him to office five years.
Buenos Aires subway workers protested a 127% increase in the fare by opening the turnstiles during rush hours for about a week and letting passengers ride for free.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama’s moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the oppressive apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
NewsOne website brings to light a YouTube video in which Ron Paul gives a “South was Right” speech to a gathering of Confederacy nostalgists—speaking against the backdrop of a giant Confederate battle flag!
The Zionist propaganda machine is having a field day with the latest call from Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein to “fight the Jews”—as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman continues to call for “transfer.”
